In the early years of the Thatcher government, it was fashionable to decry what was characterised as the overweening power of the trades unions.

The new head of the judicial office has overweening powers to manage the courts, appoint judges, and allocate cases.

Makhno viewed the revolution as an opportunity for ordinary Russians - particularly rural peasants - to rid themselves of the overweening power of the central state through self-governing and autonomous peasant committees, protected by a people's army dedicated to anarchist principles of self-rule.

Mr. Byeon acknowledged, however, that the Fair Trade Commission, which issued some of the first warnings about the overweening power of the highly leveraged chaebol years before the economic crisis of 1997-98, "is a little more reluctant."

As when you contemplate religious censorship, you must always think of the books that were never written, and the investigations that were never begun, because of the overweening power of money.

The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.

When the singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor ripped apart a photograph of John Paul II to protest what she saw as his overweening power, even the most secular humanists were outraged by her idolatry, and her career has never really recovered.

On his return to England in 1042, as Edward the Confessor, he promoted many of these Frenchmen into positions of influence, as a counterbalance to the overweening power of the Godwine family.

Nevertheless, Western interests lie in ensuring that Russia does not become the overweening power in the region.

Mr. Pachachi, one of the Americans' closest friends in Iraq, said he was growing increasingly worried about the overweening power of the cleric-dominated Shiite political leadership, which maintains extensive ties to the Iranian Islamic government next door.